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1 Installing PDFlib FontReporter 5
2 Working with FontReporter 7
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2.1 |
What can you do with FontReporter? 7 |
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2.2 |
Overview of PDF Font Formats 9 |
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2.3 |
Contents of a Font Report 11 |
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2.4 |
Investigate PDF Problems with FontReporter 14 |
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2.5 |
Error Messages 15 |
A Revision History 17
Contents 3
Requirements. The PDFlib FontReporter plugin works with Acrobat 7/8/9 Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended on Windows, and Acrobat 7/8/9 Standard and Professional on the Mac. The plugin doesn’t work with Adobe Reader.
Installing FontReporter on Windows. All plugin-related files must be copied to the subdirectory »PDFlib FontReporter« in the Acrobat plugin folder. This is done automatically by the plugin installer, but can also be done manually. A typical location of the plugin folder is as follows:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\plug_ins\PDFlib FontReporter
Installing FontReporter on the Mac. The Acrobat plugin folder is not visible in the finder. Make sure that Acrobat is not running and follow these steps: > Extract the plugin files by double-clicking the disk image (.dmg). > Locate the Acrobat application icon in the finder. It is usually located in a folder
which has a name similar to the following:
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional
> Single-click on the Acrobat application icon and select File, Get Info. > In the window that pops up click the triangle next to Plug-ins. > Click Add... and select the FontReporter folder from the folder which has been created
in the first step. Note that this folder will not immediately show up in the list of plugins, but only when you open the info window next time.
Multi-lingual Interface. FontReporter supports multiple languages in the user interface and generated font reports. Depending on the application language of Acrobat, FontReporter will choose its interface language automatically. Currently English and German interfaces are available. If Acrobat runs in any other language mode, Font- Reporter will use the English interface.
Trouble-shooting. If the FontReporter plugin doesn’t seem to work, make sure that in Edit, Preferences, [General...], Startup the »Use only certified plug-ins« box is unchecked.
Chapter 1: Installing PDFlib FontReporter 5
6 Chapter 1: Installing PDFlib FontReporter
FontReporter is a useful tool if you are interested in fonts within PDF documents. It provides font- and encoding-related information which helps in a variety of situations: > analyze printing problems (e.g. a particular font causes printing errors) > investigate text extraction problems (e.g. copying text from a PDF results in garbage) > visualize Unicode mappings for a font > find flaws in the PDF creation workflow (e.g. printer driver converted a PostScript
Type 1 font to Type 3) > test whether ToUnicode mapping tables (required for PDF/A-1a) are present > identify logos and symbols which are represented as text in a PDF > learn which fonts are contained in a PDF, and which glyphs they contain (e.g. the file
size is too large because some fonts ended up in the PDF unintentionally) > check font subsets to see which glyphs are contained in the subset > learn more about PDF font technology
Using FontReporter is as easy as bringing up the menu Plug-Ins, PDFlib FontReporter..., Create Font Report in Acrobat. This will create a font report for all pages of the current PDF document as a separate PDF. Two pages from typical font reports are shown in Figure 2.1. Fig. 2.1 Sample font reports
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Revision history of this manual
Date Changes
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July 07, 2010 |
> Updated the manual to new front and back page graphics |
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February 19, 2009 |
> Minor changes for FontReporter 1.4 |
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July 3, 2008 |
> Minor changes for FontReporter 1.3 (new: support for Acrobat 9 on Windows) |
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March 26, 2007 |
> Minor changes for FontReporter 1.2 (new: support for Acrobat 8 on Mac OS X) |
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January 30, 2006 |
> Minor additions for FontReporter 1.1 |
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February 14, 2005 |
> Initial version for FontReporter 1.0.0 |
Known problems in this version. We are currently aware of the following minor problems: > In rare cases the glyphs of Type 3 fonts may appear too small or too large, or not on
the baseline. > Although PDF Producer entries with non-Latin characters will be displayed properly
in the bookmarks, they will appear garbled in the overview page. > Sometimes not all glyph names are shown for simple fonts with the predefined encodings WinAnsi or MacRoman. > Glyph names for built-in encodings are not shown, nor those for custom encodings
which are based on a font’s built-in encoding. > Unicode values will not be shown for CID fonts with standard CJK character collections and simple fonts with the predefined encodings WinAnsi or MacRoman. However, since these are fixed mappings no document-specific information is lost.
A Revision History 17
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Licensing contact sales@pdflib.com
Support support@pdflib.com (please include your license number)